This is Tom's Page.

Tom died on October 7th 2008.  He was 15 years old and on September 30th had what we think was a heart attack, he became very slow and could hardly walk up the stairs. For a week or so we looked after him, he couldn't eat or drink and just lay sleeping making a loud snoring noise. After two visits to the vets and tablets he still got worse. It was very sad to see him so slow.   However, I learnt that he was so good at coping with this and just carried on very slowly walking but finding it hard to climb. A week before he went he sat outside behind the kitchen and I took some pictures of him. He purred up to the last and as someone who was brought up to believe cats were nasty, I loved my old Tom a lot.

I was very upset to see him go from our life here. He had 9 years at Penfeidr and I am sure enjoyed this countryside as we do. He is buried in his favourite garden.

Topsy is still with us, I wonder if she misses Tom. Yes , I am sure cats know about everything.    John

Topsy and Tom in 1993, a month old.